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10 June 1854 | | Philip Henry Delamotte photographs the opening ceremony of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. This is the culmination of his study of the entire rebuilding process and is one of the first examples of photojournalism. | Thomas Höpker (1936, 10 June - ) was born - Germany, Munich. German photojournalist. Edwin Max Konstam (1870, 10 June - 1956, 7 April) was born. Richard Margolis (1943, 10 June - ) was born - US, OH, Lorain. Walter S. Meyers (1884, 10 June - 1960, 8 January) was born - US, NY, Rochester. Mathew J. Steffens (1852, 10 June - 1928, 30 April) was born - Germany, Hontheim. Society photographer in Chicago. He is remembered for the short-lived revival of daguerreotypes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Richard Daintree (1832 - 1878, 10 June) died. English geologist and photographer - he published Sun Pictures of Victoria (1858-59). He continued to take landscape pictures of the areas he worked in and surveyed. Sigmar Polke (1941, 13 February - 2010, 10 June) died - Germany, Cologne. German painter and photographer who traveled widely in the 1970s with a camera photographing the soft underbelly of society - here are the drinking bars of São Paolo in Brazil and dog fights in Afghanistan. The resulting images are contorted, More... | January February March April May June July August September October November December
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